Have you tried VirtualBox 4.1 yet? I hope it isn't because the latest packaged version for your OS is 4.0.12 and you feel as if you're stuck there. You're not stuck there. This short tutorial will guide you through the installation. This installation is for Debian-related Linux distributions. If you use Windows, download the 4.1 installable file from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and run it.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
virtualbox-ose-dkms libvncserver0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libsdl-ttf2.0-0
The following packages will be REMOVED:
virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-qt
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libsdl-ttf2.0-0 virtualbox-4.1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 66.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 76.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Once installed, you can run VirtualBox from your GNOME menu under System Tools. Or, if you installed onto a server system with no graphical system, then launch it from your remote Linux system by connecting via SSH ($ ssh -X hostname) and typing, virtualbox &, at a user prompt.

If you're running Windows, connect via an SSH client with X11 forwarding on and use an X server like Xming to view remote graphical programs.

If you need more assistance with making the connection from your remote system or installing VirtualBox 4.1, please use the Talkback area.

Tell me what you think of VirtualBox 4.1, if you can pull yourself away from it long enough to do so.

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